Item Summary

A work on the creation of Adam.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب القول التام في بيان اطوار سيدنا آدم عليه السلام / تصنيف احمد الغرقاوي المالكي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Qawl al-tāmm fī bayān aṭwār sayyidinā Ādam ʻalayhi al-salām / taṣnīf Aḥmad al-Gharqāwī al-Mālikī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1018H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchx11xs88f
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1781
Extent
48 leaves : paper ; 169 x 116 (107 x 67) mm bound to 167 x 124 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: obscured signatured dated 1195; Muḥammad Abū al-Anwār al-Sādat with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1507.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 114.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses; folios 1-24 heavily annotated. According to the colophon, the work was composed in Ṣafar 1071 [1661]
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 48 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and overwriting in red ; watermarks (later flyleaves: coat-of-arms; text: three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمد لمن ابدع في صنحات المختلفات ... اما بعد فيقول ... الفيومي ... قد وقع السؤال وتکرر ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تنميقها في اوائل شهرصفرالخيرمن شهورسنة احدى وسبعين والف والحمد لله رب العالمين. تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in golden brown leather and red and blue marbled paper. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
110

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/575c1142-fbba-468f-9ae4-0b55c871c125/manifest